<p>Hi, all!
I'm deciding on my senior year schedule and cannot decide if I should take AP Stats, AP CS, or both in addition to AP Calculus BC. BC is a definite but I am not sure about the other two. The reason why I am putting this in the Engineering Majors forum is because I plan on majoring in BME. My issue with choosing classes is not "How many APs can I fit in my schedule to look good for college" but I genuinely would like to be prepared as an engineering major. Of course, calculus is a vital part of engineering, but which other AP would be beneficial as well? In addition, I do not want to lose my head senior year if I do Stats, CS, and BC because all of that in addition to my other APs would be 7 AP classes. If I choose the BC+1 other math class combination it would be 6 APs. So, my question is: which AP class (Stats, CS) would be most beneficial for me to be prepared as a future engineering major? Would doing both in addition to my other 5 APs be a bad idea? It should be noted that the Stats and CS teachers are both, although kind, ineffective teachers. They try to teach, but their methods do not stick to students, from what I have heard. Thank you so much for anyone who is willing to help and put up with my rambling!</p>
<p>What are the rest of your classes and what other options do you have besides Stats and CS?</p>
<p>In my experience, the answer is neither. As A BME undergrad you don’t really use either. For college, I’d say cs programming. Programming is very different so exposure it to it now will be beneficial when you take the required cs course in college. Which language is the cs course teaching? Fortran? C++. C+? </p>
<p>AP CS is taught in Java, but its less about the languages you know and more about the programming concepts and practices. It would be good exposure for an EE or ME, but I can’t say how much use it would be in BME.</p>
<p>AP statistics is typically equivalent to a non-calculus-based semester long introductory statistics course, so it should not be difficult, but also not generally worth any credit in an engineering degree program (if statistics is required, it is usually calculus-based statistics).</p>
<p>AP CS may or may not be worth a semester CS course credit toward a computer science or engineering degree program. Other engineering majors likely have to take a computing for engineering course, usually using MATLAB.</p>